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Summer Camps. After School Classes. Monthly Programs. See our Winter Classes below...
Summer Camps. After School Classes. Monthly Programs. See our Winter Classes below...
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Blacksmithing - Back-to-Back 5-Week Blacksmithing Sessions
Thursdays 3:30 - 5:00. Ages 8 and up. Enrollment Open. (See Knife Making Workshops, below, for more blacksmithing opportunities)
Cost: $225 - $550 sliding scale* per session
First Winter Session: January 8 - February 5. Location: Talent.
Second Winter Session: February 12 - March 19 (No Class March 5)
Spring Session March 26 - April 23
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Knife Making Weekends:
Blacksmithing for Young Smiths and Adults January 17-18 10:00 - 2:00. Adults. Kids ages 8 and up. Cost: $225 - $550 sliding scale* February 21-22 10:00 - 2:00. Adults. Kids ages 9 and up. Cost: $225 - $550 sliding scale* Would you like to make a knife? Join this two-day workshop and transform a piece of high carbon steel into your own hand-forged knife. Workshop will Cover: Safety Basic Forging Techniques Tool Use Types of Steel Heat-treating and Tempering High Carbon Steel *This is a hands-on workshop. Come prepared to work on your project both days. What to Bring: Lunch, Water, Safety Glasses, Ear Plugs, Leather Gloves, and plenty of patience + enthusiasm! Location: Hummingbird Forge, 20 minutes east of Ashland (where it's cooler in the mountains!). |
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Wilderness Survival & Earth Skills Program
Wednesdays 2:30 - 5:00. Ages: 6 - 17.
Winter Session begins January 14. Ashland.
$275 - $527 sliding scale* per season. (Fall, Winter, Spring).
Join us to learn from nature through the seasons in our Fall-Spring Wilderness Skills Program. You can sign up for one season or join for the whole school year. On our adventures, we will explore nature, practice wilderness skills, share stories, and complete hands-on projects and activities that bring us close to nature and teach us about ourselves.
Skills we will cover in the program include:
- Shelter
- Containers (burn bowls, baskets)
- Fire (bowdrill, hand-drill, matches, tipi fire, star fire, tinder identification, and rainy conditions)
- Food (learn to recognize common poisonous and useful plants. Learn to make survival traps - no animals will be trapped)
- Hunting Tools: Primitive spears, atl-atl, bow, arrows, slings, bolas.
- Tool Making: bone, stone, and wood.
- Hide Tanning
- Camp Location and simple navigation and mapping
- Understanding and using Field Guides (books) and Nature Journaling
- Wildlife Tracking: identification of track and sign
- Bird Language: recognizing alarm behavior and 'reading concentric rings'
- Sensory Awareness Techniques: Including owl eyes, fox walking, body radar, and sit spots.
- Games that challenge awareness and nature skills
- Nature Journaling
- Field Guide Use
This is a hands-on class for anyone interested in stepping into nature and learning some of the 'old ways.'
Music Lessons
Learn. Practice. Play!
We will adventure into the musical wilderness together and build a foundation for a lifetime of rewarding music making. More info...
Learn. Practice. Play!
We will adventure into the musical wilderness together and build a foundation for a lifetime of rewarding music making. More info...